City Crafter "Perfect Pair"

I hope you have a wonderful day filled with love ......

And as it's Tuesday and that means another challenge at City Crafter hosted this week by our lovely creator Kirsty ...

Kirsty has given us this lovely photo and 2 colours to work with for this challenge 

The challenge is to create 2 cards ... of the same design ... the main colour has to be as shown in the circles ... but you can use accent colours from the photo ...

Great challenge don't you think? ... Here's what I came up with

I'm struggling with photos lately so I apologise if they are a bit blurred

Seeing the inspiration photo ... I just had to go with dresses

These were cut on the Silhouette as were the cards ... the papers are from my huge box of scraps and forlorn papers ... some that I've had forever and always keep "just in case" ... in this instance the colours were just perfect! And I'm not sure if you can see ... but I even painted the tulle with matching distress stains.

Our Guest Designer this week is Lilia   a very talented lady who would love you to visit and say "Hi"

and our generous sponsor this week is Crop Stop ... somewhere else you need to visit ... so many fabulous goods for creating just about anything! 

Full details of the challenge and the prize can be found on the City Crafter blog ... along with the creations from our DT and our GD to give you inspiration should you need it ...

Every week we are blown away by your talents and inspired by you! Thanks so much to all of you who support us each week and new visitors are always welcome ... so don't be shy ... come and join us

Enjoy your day 

~ Ros ~

Sweet scented pillow ... and Thank you!

Hello...

I have a few people to thank this morning ...

Firstly to my sweet friend Cheryl  for this lovely card and birthday gift that arrived last week 

A gorgeous card and lots of beautiful things for me to play with... Thank You Cheryl!

Next is to the lovely Cindy for featuring me on her blog this week! Every week Cindy has a link up ... open to anyone for anything that they would like to share ... it's so lovely to see the talent and beautiful creations ... please hop over and take a look and why not link something up yourself?

Thank You Cindy!

And finally I would like to say Thank  You to LESSology for awarding me a Top 3 for my frame ...

What a lovely week for me.....

Today I have a little scented pillow to share ... 

I used an image from one of my favourite places to visit ...The Graphics Fairy 

I printed it straight on to the fabric ... I sprayed a piece of cardstock with re-positional spray and adhered the fabric to it first so it would run through my printer and I was so pleased at the result ... I use a Canon printer and found that the best setting for this was to use "plain paper" ... that way the ink doesn't run or smudge ... Here's a closer look 

The beautiful vintage button is from the box Lauren sent me 

And just in case you are wondering ... the pillow is filled with wadding and dried lavender ... and I sprayed the wadding with scent first as well ...

I wish you all a lovely day and I'll be back tomorrow with my DT project for CCCB ... 

Thanks for stopping by

~ Ros ~

Playing with Prima

Hi there ...

I hope you are well and keeping warm ... My hubby is off to the football match today - rather him than me sitting in the cold! 

The sweet girls over at Papercraft Star have a challenge for "Hearts"this week ... ... this is their beautiful inspiration photo

My sweet Aunt is coming to stay in March ... just for a week ... and I want everything to be nice and pretty for her ... so we have decorated a her bedroom and added some new furniture etc., and I made something for one of the walls ... I didn't realise just how difficult it was going to be to photograph so I apologise for the poor quality photos ...

I used some pretty Prima papers for the background and cut out different sized butterflies and a heart using pretty MF paper and just layered them 

Really simple I know ... but pretty effective doncha think?

So I'll be linking this up to the challenge ... 

And whilst I had these papers to hand I made a little pocket to tuck in some gift vouchers for my SIL who has a birthday next week 

So that's it for today ... I hope you have a lovely Sunday ...

Till soon

~ Ros ~

Handmade vintage ...

Well I'm pleased to be able to report that I finally got the results on my foot ... seems I have stress fractures in two of my toes ... hence the pain and swelling ... and I have been walking with this for 4 months whilst awaiting the correct diagnosis ... worse still I had the foot manipulated by my Chiropractor ... Yes, it was agony! ... So now I have a special shoe and crutches and all I can do is rest ... Think I can cope with that ... I know it will take up to 12 weeks but by hook or by 'crutch' I will go on my planned cruise in April ...

One of the receptionists at the hospital has been so helpful and I wanted to give her a little something ... I had This set still ... and thought it would be perfect together with a handmade pin cushion

I had this lovely material with sewing details on ... 

and I just cut the heart shape free hand 

The pretty pin is from sweet June ... and I stamped 'handmade vintage style' straight on to a scrap of the material with stamps from PTI  

This is the reverse ... I really enjoy making these so you may see some more in the future

I wish you a wonderful day

~ Ros ~

Land of Fairytales ...

The new challenge at Pixie Dust Paper has begun and this is the fabulous inspiration photo for you to work with 

The theme is "The Land of Fairy Tales"

I toyed for a while with what I should make for this ... so many ideas ... In the end I created this card

A glittery castle with a little princess ... I know my fairy tale came true when my prince was born

But she's such a sweet baby I couldn't resist this image...

I knew that clock face would come in handy some day ... just needed to make some hands for it

The hardest part was knowing when to stop with the embellishments ... Fairy Land know no bounds

Our DT have been working hard to bring you some wonderful projects full of inspiration and I can't wait to see them all ... How about you? ... Are you ready to let your imagination run free? You're more than welcome to come and join us at Pixie Dust Paperie challenge ...  We'd love to see you ... and the shop has some amazing goodies for you to work with .... Check out the details and just link up your project ...

I hope to see you there ...

Thanks for stopping by 

~ Ros ~

City Crafter 'Colours of The Rainbow"

Hi!

It's my turn to host at City Crafter this week and the challenge I have for you is all about the colours in a rainbow ... When I was a young school girl ... we were given a saying to help us remember the order of the colours in a rainbow ...

"Richard Of York Gave Battle In Vain"

Red Orange Yellow Green Blue Indigo and Violet

The challenge this week is to create a card or project using 3 or more of these colours ... 

I went with the brights ... yellow, orange, green and red

Three heart borders cut on the Silhouette and backed with different strips of paper and some liquid pearls ... I'm kind of getting the hang of using them now ...  and this is also a great way to use up odd strips of paper too...

We are fortunate to have the lovely Jacira guesting for us again this week and Pixie Dust Paperie is our generous sponsor ... and I know you will love the creations done by our team this week so why not hop over to the blog and take a look ...

I hope you will be able to join us ... thanks for stopping by today

Have a wonderful day

Till soon

~ Ros ~